[TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference

[Larry McVoy]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 06:49:31PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes:
> >
> > Another hypothesis I had ties in with this: both he and Bill Gates
> > were speakers at Euromicro 1980 in London, from 16 to 18 September.
> > Bill Gates was a no-show.  Would that fit in with Gary's "gone
> > flying"?
> >
> > Greg
> 
> According to Tom, no, he was visiting a somewhat local customer, I
> think in the bay area, which is why he was flying his plane.  This
> wasn't the modern times when CEOs owned fancy jets.

Yeah, I went and looked, it was a small $5M/year (not that small)
business and for some reason he was delivering software with his 
small plane.